Morton McMichael

Morton McMichael (2 October 1807-6 January 1879) was Mayor of Philadelphia (R) from 1866 to 1869, succeeding Alexander Henry and preceding Daniel M. Fox.

Biography
Morton McMichael was born in Burlington Township, New Jersey in 1807, and he became a lawyer in Philadelphia in 1827. He founded The Saturday News in 1836 and became a publisher of The North American in 1847, and he also served as a police magistrate and a Philadelphia alderman before serving as Sheriff of Philadelphia County from 1843 to 1846, suppressing the nativist Bible riots of 1844. McMichael served as Mayor of Philadelphia from 1866 to 1869, and he died in 1879.